Just a quick post to get a bit of knowledge out there about this here petition on the Number 10 website. For years, the Royal Mail (a company which we (being the taxpayer) are the majority shareholders of) have been the sole custodians of something called the PAF (postcode address file), which, amongst other things, [...]
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It seems that these days you can’t move for negative press coverage of Twitter, newspapers love to paint it as a haven of banality where people can reveal every detail of their pointless existence (of course, when columnists do it, it’s different somehow). They seem to thrive on sneering at it and at anyone who [...]
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